New York State Museum
April 28, 2018 to September 23, 2018

The Erie Canal, the foremost engineering marvel of the 19th century, sparked the imagination of artists in America and abroad. This companion exhibition to the New York State Museum's Enterprising Waters: New York’s Erie Canal features nine works from the Museum's collection; View of Canajoharie, ca. 1949 by Geoffrey Biggs (1809-1894), Departure of a Packet Boat (On the Erie Canal), 1939 by Henry Ernest Schnakenberg (1892-1970), Life on the Towpath, 1881 by Alfred Wordsworth Thompson (1840-1896), View of Canajoharie from a Nineteenth Century Engraving, 1944 by Esta Cosgrave (ca.1900-1952), Erie Canal, 1856 by S. Georges (active mid-1800s), The Mohawk Valley at Little Falls, New York, 1888 by William Rickarby Miller (1818-1893), Erie Canal, ca. 1832 by Risso & Browne, Erie Canal at Canastota, ca. 1935 by John W. Taylor (1897-1983), New York and the Erie Canal, 1882 by William C. Wall, and Beech Nut Plant on the Mohawk River, ca. 1920 by an unknown artist.